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Dr. Nelson Onaro conceded last summer that he’d written illegal prescriptions, although he said he was thinking only of his patients. From a tiny clinic in Oklahoma, he doled out hundreds of opioid pills and dozens of fentanyl patches with no legitimate medical purpose.

A Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine on Monday sentenced two former Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) staff to 13 years in prison on treason charges that the OSCE called "inhumane and repugnant".

Marta Cypara and co-accused Matausz Kilkowski appeared before a hearing of Tallaght District Court

Marta Cypara and co-accused Matausz Kilkowski appeared before a hearing of Tallaght District Court

Frerichs is the last American known to be held hostage in Afghanistan

In a joint investigation, reporters from the Associated Press and Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting spent months unearthing the history of convict leasing that built business empires

US President Joe Biden’s administration is revamping its efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by appointing a senior diplomat to oversee detainee transfers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The new special representative, Tina Kaidanow, a State Department official, has been chosen to review the case files of…

Like other state prisoners from New York City, A.Q. wanted to be closer to home — so much so she lobbied the state correction commissioner to finish her sentence at a Manhattan women’s prison.

A man who killed an Adelaide woman in a random attack at a suburban shopping centre was hospitalised a day after his release from prison because he was experiencing homicidal ideation, a coronial inquest has heard.